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摘要

Hillshire Brands improves operators' visibility of production process using real-time data collection to cut waste. AMERICANS CONSUMED ALMOST 450 million lb of breakfast sausage and ham in 2012, equating to nearly $1.5 billion in sales for sausage producers. While it might be true that most people don't want to see the production process behind this hearty centerpiece of breakfast, this growing consumer base wants to know there are keen-eyed, well-informed operators on the plant floor ensuring the integrity and quality of the product. The Jimmy Dean brand, part of the Hillshire Brands portfolio (www.hillshirebrands.com), sells more refrigerated breakfast sausage than the next top four producers combined (Figure 1). Hillshire Brands is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tyson Foods (www. tysonfoods.com). To maintain such a leading position, we must not only offer a consistently high-quality and uniform product, but also must do everything possible to keep costs low and throughput high, maintaining a competitive price point among competition eager to cut into our market share.